Sending emails in perl/cgi environment

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Re: Sending emails in perl/cgi environment by olus (Curate) on Mar 19, 2009 at 15:38 UTC
Why avoid the use of modules? `MIME::Lite` is one of your friends. I find it more elegant than calling the command line for `sendmail` update: The documentation has a bunch of examples MIME::Lite.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
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Re: Sending emails in perl/cgi environment by locked_user sundialsvc4 (Abbot) on Mar 19, 2009 at 17:44 UTC
Modules are your most cherished friends. For this sort of task, and for many thousands of others, you will always find that “somebody else has done it,” and that “they have done it very, very well.” Which means, in short, that you don't have to do it all over again! With very, very little effort on your part, you are rewarded with a block of code that is well-tested and known to work. You do not waste time “reinventing the wheel.”
Re: Sending emails in perl/cgi environment by Anonymous Monk on Mar 19, 2009 at 15:43 UTC
For what definition of easy? Sendmail? Email::Sender? Net::SMTP Perl Email Project	[reply]
Re: Sending emails in perl/cgi environment by apl (Monsignor) on Mar 19, 2009 at 17:43 UTC
If you're using *nix, there's a piece of non-module Perl in Re: using the Mailer / sendmail perl module... that should do the job for you.	[reply]